Fans of “American Idol” eliminated Alexis Grace from the show’s eighth season on Wednesday when they cast the fewest votes for the Memphis singer’s rendition of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” during the show’s country music-themed week. Grace, 21, was sent packing after the show’s four judges declined to use their onetime per season vetos to save her from elimination at the end of the Grand Ole Opry week. “It was good,” said judge Simon Cowell after Grace reprised the song that got her the fewest fan votes among more than 31 million cast this week. “But it wasn’t good enough.” On Tuesday, the judges took issue with Grace’s choice of song, with the show’s newest judge, Kara DioGuardi, saying the singer had lost some of her “edge.”

This comes as a mild shock I guess because Alexis Grace was reportedly one of the judge’s favorites and seemed to have a lot of public support. However, Megan Joy (pictures below), a Top 10 finalist, is possibly the worst singer in American Idol history to make it this far. But she wasn’t even in the bottom two last night. How could this be? Well, I had my crack investigative team look into this and they discovered that Megan Joy is really, really pretty and has ridiculously big boobs. Alexis Grace does not. I don’t know if this is the exact reason Alexis Grace was voted off, but I’m not going to lie, my crack investigative team is really just my penis.

Although American Idol prides itself being able to pluck a singer out of obscurity and make them a star through weekly competition, it turns out this year’s winners may have already been secretly chosen by the show’s producers. Oh, my! How scandalous! New York Daily News reports:

The female “AI” worker told a “group of people that the last four are going to be Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds, Adam Lambert and Alexis Grace,” said our insider. Asked if this was opinion or actual fact, the staffer vehemently retorted, “Those ARE the people,” saying it wasn’t mere speculation. If it was just her prediction, she’d be spot-on with this week’s TV Guide, which also chose those exact four wanna-be crooners as its picks for stardom. But the lass took it a step further, claiming that higher-ups at the hit Fox show were taking an issue with two of the top contenders. “Adam Lambert and Lil Rounds are better singers and musicians than Gokey and Grace, but they’re too much like past winners and ‘A’ successes,” the woman said. “Adam’s too close in style and sound to Chris Daughtry, while Lil Rounds is a dead ringer for Fantasia. Even their background stories are similar! “The producers really want it to be Danny or Alexis. They think they’re very commercially viable, have a good image and a great story.”

I don’t know, I’m kinda not buying this. If they’re so worried about image, why did Kelly Clarkson win? Her image should be on breakfast sausages not album covers.

Note: The banner video is emo queer Adam Lambert’s complete butchering of the Johnny Cash classic, Ring of Fire last night. Instead of doing this, Lambert should have dug up Johnny Cash, propped him up on stage and shot him with paintballs. It would have basically been the same thing.